Adam Serving in Portland

Hello everyone! How has your week been? Did anything fun happen? What are you doing to celebrate Easter this Sunday? This week it felt like I was wearing a sign that had something to the effect of the title to this email. In case you were curious, I don't actually love public speaking. This week was busy and pretty epic! We had zone conference, gave a training there too, temple tour, spoke in sacrament meeting (with about 10 minutes notice), and exchanges! First of all, Zone Conference! That was awesome! It was held in a historic Portland Tabernacle. It's the first stake center in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the pacific-northwest. It is pretty cool! Lots of cool history around it. If you want to know more, you can email me! In zone conference we got to give a training on planning! The main teaching point was actually the story of the Brother of Jared in Ether chapters 2-3. I highly recommend you read them and listen to what the Spirit teaches you about pl...

Hi everyone! How has your week been? What has been a highlight? What is something new you tried? It's been a good week here! A couple highlights: temple, Mission Leadership Council (MLC), exchanges, fun lessons, and a zone lunch with President Botchway. First off, today we got to go to the temple! This was the last time we'll be able to attend before it closes until August, so it was extra special to be able to go today. It is a beautiful place when the Spirit of God dwells constantly! If you are seeking for direction or answers I encourage you to go to the temple. Even if you don't go in. Just go. Pray and ponder. Talk with God! He will guide you! I got to go on exchanges with Elder Partridge again! He came out on his mission at the same time as me and we have served close to each other for almost 10 months of that time, so it was a lot of fun! We got to teach a couple people and also just had a lot of good conversations. We got to go to MLC on Friday! That was awesome! El...

 Hi everyone! Did you all have a good week? What was a highlight? How did you see God's hand this week? This week in the Oregon Portland Mission was full of excitement! Here's why:   I got transferred, some awesome lessons, and zone council! It doesn't look like much when I type it out, but things were constantly moving and just very busy. So on Wednesday we had zone council! It was awesome! We studied out our call as missionaries as a zone! We talked about all that is expected of us as disciples of Jesus Christ and what blessings come from that! It was really awesome! Then on Friday, I got transferred from Tualatin to Canby! There's a lot of craziness with the transfer. I am now companions with Elder Moore, who I have served around (in the same apartment)  for 3 months previously! I am also still covering 2 wards. My new comp, Elder Moore, and I In addition to getting transferred, we were also moving apartments at the same time. So I got to help out with that when ...

  Hi all! How has your week been? What was the most exciting thing that happened to you? What is something you're looking forward to? Send me an email-I'd love to hear from you! This week has been great! We have had a lot of really good lessons, fun exchanges, mission prep with the Botchways, and the temple! First of all, the temple is amazing! Go if you haven't gone or haven't gone recently! It will bless your life! Mission prep was awesome, the Botchways came to teach it because it was the last one for this section. Something they said a lot was "missionary work is hard work, but hard work brings joy" . I really liked that! Here's a scripture I read recently that also testifies of that principle: "And the Lord of the vineyard said unto them: Go to, and labor in the vineyard, with your might. For behold, this is the last time that I shall nourish my vineyard; for the end is nigh at hand, and the season speedily cometh; and if ye labor with your mig...